Social theory books

Filling in a key chapter in communications history, this title offers an examination of the rise of the ""global...  Read More >>

Presents an introductory guide to Freud and brings together: an overview of Freud's work which enables the reader...  Read More >>

Linking cultural studies and sociology, this collection explores the role of affect in the theorization of the social....  Read More >>

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This volume reviews Africa's past experiences of social policy, with an eye on the future. Contributions examine...  Read More >>

Linking cultural studies and sociology, this collection explores the role of affect in the theorization of the social....  Read More >>

From reality TV to political rallies, there is a clamour to be heard, to narrate, and to receive attention. It reduces...  Read More >>

Presents an introductory guide to Freud and brings together: an overview of Freud's work which enables the reader...  Read More >>

Addressing the question that how can we listen more carefully, this book shows how sociology is in a position to...  Read More >>

This interdisciplinary book indicates the need to address well-being from individual, community and social perspectives...  Read More >>

Provides an introduction to major philosophical concepts, issues and debates raised by the social sciences. This...  Read More >>

This volume identifies three persisting areas of tension in sociology - sociology's ambiguous identity vis-a-vis...  Read More >>

Gives you a comprehensive overview of the major contemporary schools of sociological thought. This work integrates...  Read More >>

A companion to the study of the philosophy of the social sciences, which provides the student with an introduction...  Read More >>

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This interdisciplinary book indicates the need to address well-being from individual, community and social perspectives...  Read More >>

Baudrillard's remarkably prescient meditation on terrorism throws light on post-9/11 delusional fears and political...  Read More >>

This book, the first serious academic study of obituaries, focuses on how societies remember and argues that obituaries...  Read More >>

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This book examines both problems in traditional readings of Marx's texts and how he used several methods of science...  Read More >>

If the Soviet Union did not have a socialist society, then how should its nature be understood? The present book...  Read More >>

Presenting a unified view of the emotions in the social universe, in this volume Turner explores the relationships...  Read More >>

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Olick looks at a range of memory related issues, how catastrophic, terrible pasts – Nazi Germany, apartheid South...  Read More >>